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1. This one I've always particularly loved as a writer. Six Feet Under. FINALE. *Spoilers!*

Sat Jul 27, 2013, 07:51 PM

Jul 2013

It's the only way 6 Feet Under could have ended. Any other ending would have felt false and had too strong of an element of avoidance. The entire series was about death as a part of life and the process of living, not to be avoided but something without which living would have little meaning; to not have the series end on a 50-year-arc covering the deaths of the characters and how these deaths led into and contributed to the lives of those who survived them would have been a cop-out. It would have been dishonest to the viewers.

It's also hands-down one of the best dialogue-less scenes ever written and it makes me sad every time I see it but totally worth it.

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This one I've always particularly loved as a writer. Six Feet Under. FINALE. *Spoilers!* Chan790 Jul 2013 #1

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